Recaps

Ian searched for Newt Scamander in Africa while studying African magic and accepting Musa’s request to uncover what happened to his missing family. He infiltrated the African Ministry and followed Dementors down to the prison, where Newt remained somewhere in its hidden depths.

• Ian reached an African wizard settlement, learned from Babua that Newt Scamander had been detained near Lake Victoria, and arranged to obtain a Portkey to the Ministry.
• Ian gathered rare magical materials and studied African magic with Master Caleb, who gave him the family book Secret Runes of the Bone after Ian improved his engraving methods.
• Ian investigated Musa’s time-reversing cauldrons and learned that Musa’s wife Armani and son Little Som had disappeared inside a Siberian underground facility.
• Ian accepted Musa’s commission to uncover the truth about his family, read Musa’s research on time and resurrection, and promised to visit the facility after finishing his business in Africa.
• Ian received Babua’s Portkey and detailed map, then used them to enter the African Ministry and secretly map its defenses and locate Newt in the underground prison.
• Ian transformed into a raven, entered the prison, and used the Raven’s aura to summon Dementors and make them lead him toward Newt.
• Ian passed increasingly dangerous prisoners, silencing a witch and a wizard who challenged him, while the Dementors continued taking him deeper into the prison.
• Ian realized his Marauder’s Map concealed the prison’s vast vertical depth, and a calm, blind middle-aged prisoner warned him not to go farther down.

Ian descended beneath the African Ministry to find Newt and fought the imprisoned Ancient Spirits and a Fallen Deity before pursuing a monstrous creature into the darkness. He reached R’lyeh as the Black Robed Woman purged the prison and the Blind Wizard revealed his expedition to the Lake of Stars.

• Ian learned that Newt was held in the Silent Chamber and passed the frightened Dementors to confront three corrupted Ancient Spirits, whom he began trying to save.
• A Fallen Deity emerged from behind the great door and battled Ian, who forced his way into ancient ruins when the deity used Spatial Lock against him.
• Ian fought the Fallen Deity through the ruins, but a greater force dragged it away and sealed the passage, leaving Ian to travel deeper underground.
• Ian found the Fallen Deity transformed into a regenerating monster and fought it until he discovered that it feared the absolute darkness beyond their battlefield.
• Ian attacked the monster from the safety of the darkness until it collapsed into black sludge, then followed the hostile presence farther and resisted its illusions.
• Ian crossed a Land of Ashes, entered a strange city, and deciphered its name as R’lyeh, the legendary resting place of Cthulhu.
• The Black Robed Woman killed the prison’s inmates, and the Blind Wizard called her his student before showing her memories of his youth as Saruman Bright-Eye.
• Saruman, Karg, and Lina explored the Lake of Stars, descended into its submerged passage, and encountered tentacled creatures and signs of a sleeping consciousness beneath the lake.